Retainer assembling apparatus and retainer assembling method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8793851
APP PUB NO 20120285015A1
SERIAL NO

13469445

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This invention provides a retainer assembling apparatus which assembles a retainer to a valve stem via a cotter which engage with an engaging groove formed on the valve stem. The cotter comprises a pair of cotter segments. The apparatus includes a cylindrical body, a holding portion which holds the retainer contacting a lower end of the cylindrical body, a push-up shaft which pushes up the pair of cotter segments into the cylindrical body, and an axial body which is arranged in the cylindrical body to be coaxial with the push-up shaft and to be coaxially movable. The cylindrical body includes a tapered inner circumferential portion on an inner circumferential wall lower portion thereof.

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  • HIRATA CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kawamoto, Yukihiro Shinagawa-ku, JP 6 35
Koizumi, Masahiro Shinagawa-ku, JP 44 1012
Matsuda, Koji Shinagawa-ku, JP 99 6692
Oka, Haruo Shinagawa-ku, JP 1 9
Shiga, Hiroyuki Shinagawa-ku, JP 6 51
Takamura, Kotaro Shinagawa-ku, JP 2 14

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